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Reform call for ‘tortuous’ asylum rules

Ahmed Osman might have hoped the worst was over when he set foot in Ireland

Mark Tighe

June 8 2014, 1:01am, The Sunday Times

A SUDANESE doctor given refugee status in Ireland after four attempts has called on the government to reform the “tortuous” asylum system.

After being abducted and tortured in Sudan in March 2009, Ahmed Osman, 39, was flown to Ireland for treatment with the assistance of Amnesty International and Front Line Defenders.

Osman believes he was abducted by Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services because he helped Médicins Sans Frontières compile a report on rapes carried out by Sudanese forces in Darfur, a region in the west of the country. He was also politically active with an opposition party. The doctor, who lives in Drogheda, was detained after he moved to Khartoum.

“I saw many abuses of rights in Darfur, and MSF used my information to…

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